A joint exercise with the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Force, Unbreakable Brotherhood-2021 is to begin at the proving ground of the Kazan Higher Tank School on Monday, it will be held from November 8 to 12. According to the press service of the Central Military District (CMD), military contingents of Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia will take part in practical operations.
The participating peacekeeping personnel from the Samara Region and communication, special purpose, radio-electronic warfare, radiological, chemical and biological defense forces and military police will demonstrate their post-conflict settlement skills, the Central Military Region’s chief, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, the commander of the exercise, is quoted as saying.
The exercises will be held in two stages. CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Force will practice planning and peace-keeping activities in the field, such as joint actions to set up and protect a refugee camp, escort humanitarian convoys and guard roadblocks. The exercise will end with a tactical operation to seal off a community seized by illegal armed groups and "eliminate" them.
More than 1.7 thousand people representing the armed forces and law enforcement bodies of the CSTO member states will take part in the exercise. The troops will use more than 300 pieces of military equipment, including eight helicopters Mi-8 and Mi-24.
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Based on materials from TASS